Re: [opensuse] Crontab -e question

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:01:54 +0200 Per Jessen wrote:

Bob Williams wrote:

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:05:25 +0200 Admin Beckspaced wrote:

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Am 19.08.2016 um 12:27 schrieb Bob Williams:

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To edit my own crontab, I type crontab -e, which opens my crontab in vim (default editor here). The file contains numerous lines like this

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Sun Aug 14 14:29:06 2016) # (Cronie version 4.2)

but when write and close the file (:wq), I get this

10:11 bob@hexagon:~> crontab -e crontab: installing new crontab

which is what I expect and not alarming. Why all the repeated warnings in the file itself?

hello,

the warnings in the file itself just tell you to not edit this file directly! just use crontab -e and all is fine.

the crontab needs to get installed after file changes and a direct edit of the fiel itself won't do a install.

nothing to worry here ;)

greetings becki

Many thanks becki, Oliver and Per. My crontab worked so I was just curious about the warnings.

Bob, I don't know how they ended up in there, but if you delete them, they should not return.

Per, thank you. That's what I've done. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.1.20-11-default Distro: openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.21.0, Qt: 5.5.1 and Plasma: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org